Woman's inexplicable weight gain leads to shocking cancer discovery
Fox News
29-year-old Amanda Shoultz chronicled her struggle with mysterious weight gain that was later diagnosed as a 17-pound tumor called a liposarcoma, according to a recent Good Morning America (GMA) report.
During her annual checkup this February, she resolved she would lose 10 pounds because, "I just assumed it was my fault. That I had done something wrong," she told the news outlet.
Her doctor checked routine blood work, but when everything came back normal, she thought she had an undiagnosed food allergy that was causing excessive bloating, so she started experimenting with her diet, but nothing helped stop the weight gain, according to the report.
After almost eight months of not improving, she was referred to a gastroenterologist. "By the time I saw my GI [gastroenterologist] doctor, my stomach was hard as a rock," she recalled. "My mom said you could have punched me in my stomach and broken your hand it was so hard."